Updates from the SWAT4(HC)LS program: third keynotes confirmed and our Programme Committee.

We are happy to announce that we have confirmed our third keynote for this edition of SWAT4LS. Medha Devare will provide a keynote on "Spinning a Semantic Web for Agriculture". You can read more on her background on the SWAT4(HC)LS site.

We are also happy to announce the Programme Committee for 2018:

Andra Waagmeester Micelio, Belgium
M.Scott Marshall Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Andrea Splendiani Novartis, Switzerland    
Naouel Karam Fraunhofer Institute, Germany    
Maxat Kulmanov KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran University of Oxford, UK  
Arash Shaban-Nejad University of California, Berkeley  
Luca Toldo SAP, SE    
Hilmar Lapp NESCent, USA    
Adrian Paschke Freie Universität Berlin, Germany  
Clement Jonquet University of Montpellier, France
Holger Stenzhorn University of Tubingen, Germany  
N˙ria Queralt GRIB/IMIM/UPF, Spain
Olivier Dameron Université de Rennes, France  
Peter Robinson The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA
Erick Antezana Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jesualdo Tom·s Departamento de Informatica y Sistemas Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Albert Burger MRC Human Genetics Unit, UK  
Yasunori Yamamoto Database Center for Life Science, Japan
Atsuko Yamaguchi Database Center for Life Science, Japan
Robert Hoehndorf KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Matthias Samwald Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Katy Wolstencroft LeidenUniversity, Netherlands
Phillip Lord Newcastle University, UK
Melanie Courtot European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Paolo Romano Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy  
Adrien Coulet INRIA, France
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz The Alan Turing Institute, UK  
Jon Hael Brenas University of Tennessee Health Science, USA
Crawford Revie University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Satya Sahoo Case Western Reserve University, USA  
Jin-Dong Kim Database Center for Life Science, Japan
Olivier Bodenreider US National Library of Medicine
Alasdair Gray Heriot-Watt University, UK    
Paul Groth Elsevier Labs    
Toralf Kirsten Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics Leipzig, Germany
Michel Dumontier Maastricht University, Belgium
Toshiaki Katayama Database Center for Life Science, Japan
Jerven Bolleman Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland  
Matthew Lange University of California, Davis, USA
Pierre Larmande INRIA, France